🔗 I’m Going to Dig a Hole

He taught me that no one knows where inspiration comes from — only that it’s fragile, invaluable, and fleeting.

Meanwhile in LA - 🔗 AI-Powered Surveillance in Schools.

I’ll let you click through to the quote that Bruce Schneier has on his site.

🔗 Wikipedia Turns 25: What Editing Taught Me - is a great read.

Another From Seth

🔗 The Sorting

But now, particularly with digital output, we’re doing it backwards.

Really great analogy - and IMHO - infinitely superior to the Pluribus analogy - at least my takeaway of same - although that is a different post.

That said - it would be so much easier if Seth not only came checked the story’s author - but maybe added a link?

So you don’t have to dive down the rabbit hole ..

🔗📚 The book (Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth) .. that contains the short story

🖇️ What’s strange is how little of that generosity we extend to each other

Quoting the quote:

I’ve been thinking about how quickly we’ve adapted to working with AI. We all understand the deal. If the output is bad, it’s probably on us. The prompt was vague. The context was missing. We didn’t give it enough constraints. So we revise. We clarify. We try again. No frustration. No judgment. Just iteration.

I know right? … and then the clincher

What’s strange is how little of that generosity we extend to each other. Somewhere along the way, we learned to treat machines as systems that need better inputs–but we still treat humans as if they should just know. And when they don’t, we judge competence, take it personally, make assumptions, or shut down.

Guilty. NO argument. Going to try harder.

The link above also references:

🔗 Wikipedia

But better to read 🔗 UXtopian

👀 🔗 The Cost of American Exceptionalism

Absolutely eye opening and mind boggling.

You’ve probably already seen the video - or at least a still from it - but I just wanted to comment on the 🎵musical part - 🔗📼 just so good

Just discovered 🔗📚 Linchpin by Seth Godin - and I wonder how I missed it - because I wonder if it is a twist on my ‘Blue Ocean of Org Charts’ - will try to find the post.

🔗 Apple’s pro bundle makes sense, but making iWork freemium doesn’t.

CORRECT

A feature to make building formulas and tables in Numbers is, somehow, limited to people paying $129 a year for Final Cut? A feature to make it easier for someone to build a Keynote presentation out of their notes is only available for someone shelling out $129 for Logic or Pixelmator?

Back when I was a lad and ‘studying’ Math / Maths my preference was always to the PURE. ‘Applied’ always had stupid assumptions that I couldn’t get on with - frictionless planes, no wind resistance blah blah

BUT - Pure Maths invited exploration.

Well - what if 1+1 did NOT equal 2 - then what? Can you prove it? To this mind - much more interesting.

Which is why this 🔗 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal caught my eye.